Last year at about this time of the season, Spurs found themselves in the lofty and a bit unexpected position of being the team ‘chasing runaway leaders’ for the title. Long way to go, 14 games or so, but there we were, second in the league and chasing… a pretty much lost cause. Last year – Read More-
Last night during my nightly tv-surf, I chanced upon Bullitt. The late 60s Steve McQueen cop movie. Which contains, arguably, ‘the finest car chase ever filmed’. Better than the one in the French Connection, better than the Blues Brothers (279 police cars smashed up en route), better than Vanishing Point even, which was an entire – Read More-
As an almost qualified clinical psychiatrist (I read a book about Freud in 1984), I have chosen, as my most recent case study, the person hereafter and forthwith to be referred to, in order to keep professional standards up and personal expenses down, as ‘Jose Morinho’. Even though his real name is ‘client X’. Mr – Read More-
Went to see the movie Denial last night. Had to. I’m Jewish. Its about the holocaust, or in this case, denial thereof, and its in our contract that we go see all relevant films. No choice. And it had Rachel Weiss in it, who is adorable, and Tom Wilkinson, who is brilliant and Timothy Spall – Read More-
The much lauded ‘magic of the FA Cup’ is a euphemism for total mis-matches. We love them. Because it elevates (or perhaps ‘lowers’) the concept of ‘underdog’ to levels not normally encountered. When Chelsea play Watford, (or in fact when they play Liverpool, as they do tonight), the team not Chelsea is the underdog. Because – Read More-
Donald Trump has banned all Syrians, Iranians, Somalians, etc, etc, from entering his country. We only want to ban one person. Him. The petitions have started, the protests and marches will be appearing at a Trafalgar Square near you any time soon, to stop the President of the Unaaarted Stayytes of Aaaameyrica coming to these – Read More-
Men and women have certain differences. Chromosomal. Genetic. You can’t argue with science. Well, you can but then you’d probably be some kind of bible-basher, they argue with science all the time. Though about men and women the bible-bashers would be the last to argue any form of blurred lines. Men are men, they wear – Read More-
How much do you like traffic wardens? Parking charges?? I know, I know, these are emphatically first world problems, or more precisely, they are inner city first world problems. In the countryside you can park on a cow. By the stables. Up a tree. Anywhere. The only yellow lines there are when someone has pissed – Read More-
Do you use ‘waze’? The sat-nav system favoured by Uber and so many others that Google bought the company a few years back. Its not just a ‘shortest distance between two points’ kind’a deal. Nothing like. It ‘knows’ where the traffic is, the roadworks, the speed cameras, and it avoids them. And it is, quite – Read More-
I was watching some football a couple of months ago; I know, its unusual. But I was. And Spurs superstar midfield genius and vunderkind, Dele Alli, appeared to have what I thought was a new tattoo. Nothing new there, footballers and tattoos. Its like love and marriage, horse and carriage, lawyers and divorce. Even though – Read More-